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Fake ‘One Battle After Another’ torrent hides malware in subtitles
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The whole exploit is based on the user clicking on a .lnk shortcut, which then executes commands found in the subtitle text file.
Which seems strangely over complicated. How does it really help to involve the subtitles file at all?
Hiding executable code in the srt file likely evades various security software.
@aaaa if a sufficient amount of vics does exactly that it may work out (like bit error domains, or: artefact of speering vic)